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Chap. XVII.
HELLEBÆK.
269
the theatre. We came across no deer, no game.
Before the year ’50 these forests abounded with stags,
chevreuil, hares, &c.; now there are only foxes. These
they shoot. Each year his Majesty gives a grand battue,
and invites the foreign ministers accredited at his
Court to assist at the execution. Last autumn the
English Minister carried away the palm before all
competitors,—shot more foxes than anybody. “ C’est evident,”
said the Danes, “ il est tellement habitué chez lui.’
Our walk to the Hammer-mills and the village of
Hellebæk did, however, come off two days later, and
well it repaid our trouble. Suddenly, among the rich
woodland scenery you come on a little village, with
turning water-mills, gardens, and homesteads of almost
Dutch neatness. This is the German colony—the
congregation of St. Mary’s—established by the celebrated
Count Schimmelmann, in the last century, for the
manufacture of arms. He appears to have
understood business, as on its establishment he contracted to
supply the government with 10,000 stand of arms
annually : his descendants do so still, and will I believe so
continue.
The village of Hellebæk extends along the sea-shore.
A miraculous draught of fishes had been taken two
nights before in the nets; every garden, every piece
of waste ground, was hung with cod and flounders,
split up, drying in the sun. In each cottage window
blossom splendid tree carnations; the rose de la Hollande
and the Ardoisée, one mass of flowers. We returned
by the sea-shore, and found the fluffy blue anemone—
the “ spring cow-bell,”* as it is here called—growing
in the sea-sand.
♦ Pulsatilla vulgaris.
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